The World's Largest Gummy Bear Lit Up by 5 Pounds of Thermite

A friendly YouTube user known as carsandwater built quite the following by dropping a red-hot nickel ball onto a number of different substances—a block of ice, a watermelon, ballistic gel—to see what happens. In his latest experiment, he moves on to everyone's favorite terrifying substance, thermite.

He drops a 5-pound gummy bear into an old paint tin and fills the rest of the container with an equal amount of thermite. Then he slips in a wick, ignites it, and steps back for the show.

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The gummy bear actually fares better than the paint tin, which gets completely incinerated. The bear is charred on the outside, but breaking through the crust with a pair of pliers reveals a semi-liquid green goo on the inside. It really makes you wonder about the wisdom of eating things that can stand up to five pounds of thermite.